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By ROBERT BERNAYS, M.P.

The Very Idea!

FORWARD THE LOTOL!

Mostly About "Most" Beware of superlatives. They are the pirates of the English language. They take to them. selves things that do not belong to them. And so the person'

By Eddie B. Kally Apiarist. who has the temerity to assert

According to a Canadian report, that this is the biggest or best,

The loudest cry in the post-war Government Bill, such as the Lon from Taber, Alberta, loft Van- a shipment of 5,680,000 bees the longest or loveliest, the sweetest or soureat thing in the world has been that youth has don Traffic Bill, it is never tho world, should pause to approx-not been given ita chance. It can- The adjournment motion every

young, men who take the load. Couver on November 19 for Can-

ton. imate the effect of his state-not be said of the present British night provides obvious opportuni-perienced at Canton since the bees Some trouble has been Ox- ment. Recently a lexicographer Parliament.

ties for members to raiso legiti-were delivered, as a hasty count named "the ten most beautiful

Thongkong Telegraph slices of lean, tender corned beef. oloction victor of Bmpletely silent dividing questions of Home Rule Clubs, with crossed gules of

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1933.

How the Poor Live How often has it been proved RUSSIA, CHINA AND that more knowledge is the first in the social history of our time

JAPAN

indispensable step to improve ment! Forty years ago there Issues of extreme importance was no lack of good will toward are wrapped up in the exchange the poor and desire to improve of Notes which has been taking their lot; but sentiment was de-interest. place between Russia and Japan fented by sheer ignorance of the for the conclusion of R Non-conditions under which the poor

is

somewhat

was

Not "Good Form"

not

being

months

us to

men

con-

re-

Conference on Manchuria, Conference on Debts. Conference on Disarmament. Conference on Tariffs. Committee of Nineteen Manchuria.

on

Conference on Reparations. Conference on Money. Conversations between Premiers."

two

words in the English language." The dominant impression that mate grievances. I have not once has revealed that only 6,679,997

wore landed. And what a spanking he has any visitor to the House of Com-heard a young member take advan-

tage of ft.

The Anzac Company has been been getting ever since! Here mens retains to-day is of hordes

Yot for the cut and thrust of commissioned to investigate the. are the

words: dawn, hush, of young men, carnent, well groom Parliamentary debata we ought to matter, with a view to discovering lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, od, and all looking exactly alike. be admirably equipped. None the missing boos. mist, luminous, chimes, golden,

There are more men under 85'in of us has any excuse for the in- We notice that some 800 queen memory. It was the word the present Parliament than in any feriority complex which makes bees were included in the "most," the malicious little within the memory of man. Youth the change from the sweeping ora- signment. Which reminds us of bandit, the superlative, that did has certainly had its chance in tlons of the street corner to the the chap who was born a B. and all the damage. The mere as- politics. What is interesting to subtle debating points of the dled a queen......... Oh Yeah! ter- Japanese reinforcements aro sertion that they are "beautiful study is whether it is taking it. House in Committee such a I WE WANT THIS CAR TO words" would arouse litle mili-A year has gone by since the na-rible ordeal to many new Labour being rushed to Canton, and the

BECOME

tant comment. It was the little tional tide swept us back to West- members. Many of us have al- jaituation has increased in inten- KNOWN

ona aity following the action of tho JUST word "most," unfurling its van-minster a little bewildered at the ready crossed swords with COME IN AND ASK US FOR A ner of defiance between the malden speeches are

extent of our victorice. Most another In university debating Japanese authorities in presenting over now. societies. There are no fewer a demand to the Chinese Govern- RUN.

"ten" and the "beautiful." that The bunch at the first hurdle has than 13 ex-presidents of the Ox-ment for the immediate retirement, made the statement the target thinned out and it is possible to ford Union in the present House of this now force. of a broadside from the world's see who are likely to forge ahead. of Commons.

A protest has been ledged with "best" orthographers. Driven It is strange how scanty is the

the League of Nationd, which will What They Have Missed

meet next month to consider, tho tandem, this string of words field.

Many excuses can be made for now development, and a commis- may present a rather attractive

Dumb Dogs of the Past appearance, but they may be

us. A large proportion of us, in aton, under Lord Bee-verbrook, has Admittedly it is an unprofitable addition to our Paritamentary been authorised to make a report casily associated with other

The Japanese threaten to spray words in the presentation of business trying to spot future work, have to earn our own living. anything but a "most beautiful" Prime Ministers. They apring This means that we cannot give Canton with Lotol if their

from the circumstances of the the minute attention to points of presentations are ignored. picture. After all, there are

time far more than from their procedure and the intricate details We will now draw to a close many beautiful words, and their speeches in the past. Who would of a Parliamentary Bill which by merely saying that what the associations largely make them have imagined that Campbell. alone can make the complete Par-devil people can see in this rub- 80. Even "cabbage" is, to some Bannerman would have led the Jamentary swordaman. More-bisk beats Mr. Edward Kelly, the author, journalist. people, a beautiful word when it Liberal Party to the greatest vic (over, the great questions of the well-known is associated with a couple of tory in its history or that the by-day-debts, currency problems. man about town, and member of

the in 1968, disarmanment-unlike

and old the Hongkong

Shanghai

through the most exciting six or the House of Lords, or land field argent or, with roaring lions, years of our Parliamentary his taxes, are necessarily fought out and unicorns with horna reversed.

ra- Are you suffering from tory, was to be twenty years Interat international conventions

Don't so the danger- war. Toryism?

post-ther than on the floor of the House unicorn? the triumphant leader of

of Commons.

ous, razor-one drop of Footsie

At the same time it is a little

All the same, even on the ques-No pain. Send for a free trial Tootsie, and it lifts right out! disturbing to-day that there is not tions of the hour that remain our

gallon, also oor free booklet, a single young man whose rising concern, there is lamentably little Corna, Unicorns, Bicorns, Pop-

Independence of to speak when it is reported in the evidence of smoking rooms among his friends, a

arouses, except thought. Perhaps the conditions Comms, Acorns...Steady! Stendy! Bicker of of the last election are to blame, Control yourself. Bee your agel

So many members were spared that

NON-STOP VARIETY. gruelling apprenticeship to public

"Free to-night?" grina Jupiter life that prolonged prospectiva Aggressiori Pact. They are lived. A pioneer step in the One reason is that we are as candidatures in hopeless seats to Venus. "Why not stop across those, in particular, which in-warfare against poverty in mo- yet too timid. We are cursed with toto the party view on all ques-

provide. We tend to adopt into the old Terreetium 7"

"What's the programme, Jupe?" volve the future status of Man-dern cities

taken when the public school code of obedience tions because we have not had

"Non-stop. And not a bad show chukuo. The Japanese Govern-Charles Booth

there to our betters. Are organized his

either."

the He glances at form any other.

Planetary News: ment apparently thinks that the house-to-house and street-by- over a hundred Etonians in the the experience to enable better way of preventing any street investigation in London, Harroviana? I remember

House and nearly half as many

"The Terrestium" (he reads). border clashes with the Soviet and published his survey of the sharply pulled up some

What Happens to Rebels

"Continuous Variety. is to devise some method of pre- "Life and Labour of the People." ago by a senior member for some Where there is independence of ventive regulation. Why "there What a picture it revealed of criticisms I had seen fit to make thought there is the greatest reluc- should be any reluctance to con- poverty and deprivation in the of a Cabinet Minister. "Who are tance to break from the pack. clude a Non-Aggression Pact, poorer quarters--the "Bast you to attack-?" I WOB in Rebel vidwe do not extend beyond unless there is real fear of End of London! Nearly one dignantly asked, "You have not the lobbies. Inside the Chamber future trouble, is puzzling. The third of the population of this been here six months yet." Itali is uniformity and good form. of could count on the fingers of one impression gained is that Japan huge area was living below the voice with which small boys whe hand the number of young

was said in exactly the tone suspicious of "poverty line." amid misery venture to speak in their School who say the same thing Inside the Russia. Indeed, suspicion would caused in the main not by un- Debating Society are reminded Chamber as they say out of it.

"And then?" asks Venus. seem also to exist in Russia as employment but by brutal sweat that they have not even won their

All the pressure that has been "Why, then it starts again. well, since M. Stalin quite re-ing. The forty years which House Rugger colours yet. exerted on this Government has Conference on Debta; Conferonco cently advocated the diverting have intervened have scen B But that kind of some of the Soviet's industrial change in that. A similar in- amusing though it is, has had a

of mentality, been from the older men in the on Disarmament, Sino-Japanese

direction of making it Conser-dispute discussion, and so on." energies to the manufacture of quiry in the same area has been bad effect on the vitality of this vative. There has been little com- "Come on. Jupo; I'm with you. arms and ammunition, in view made in recent years under the Parliament. We are all much too pensatory pressure on the other I just love slapstick."..... of the fact that some of Russia's direction of Sir H. Llewellyn inclined to apologise for ourselves. eide to keep it National.

SOCIETY NOTES. neighbours (Japan obviously in-Smith, and some of the most Question time has become largely What is needed is another cluded) have not signed Non-important results have just been the affair of the old men. Most Fourth

Mr. and Mrs. P. Kyhte, accom-^ Party. Lord Randolph Aggression Pacta. Be that published in the third and fourth of us would as soon wear brown Churchill was only 31 when he paaled by three amaha and her pet as it may, for the purpose volumes of the "New Survey of boots with a blue suit as indulge in sprang into fame as the leader of Chow, Peops, have left No. 701 of preventing frontier incid-London Life and Labour." a little healthy heckling of the the group that changed the face of and will be away for some weeks,

Government Front Bonch.

Lettera for Mra.“ or fortnights. cnts, Japan has suggested Most of the materials, were ac-

English politics for a generation. Kyhte should be sent Posto Re the formation of a Japan-Soviet-cumulated in the year 1929—

Trained Gladiators

But there is plenty of time. stante. Letters for Peeps should Manchukuo Committee, and the that is to say, before the present Indeed, we seem hardly to dare We young men in our first year

ga to. the Vet's. proposal is apparently accept-world slump in trade had pro- to put down questions at all. It may have created, an impression able to Russia. This is where duced its dire results in doubl-is quite an event when question of disappointment. There are at returned to Viper's Bungalow the deliberations take aling and in some districts trebl-time extends its full allotted hour, least three more years left to serious turn, inasmuch as the ing or quadrupling the already If there is a revolt against a correct it. creation of any such body would large numbers of persons un- imply the recognition of Man-employed in England. The chukuo by the Soviet. Very efforts of those forty years were possibly this is precisely Japan's not in vain. Of the population wish. But Russia, which has of this poor region nearly complained of the League treat- 2,500,000-no less than three- ment of the Manchurian problem, quarters of a million would be must know full well that by re-living under the "poverty line" cognising Manchukuo she would if the conditions were still the only be further complicating the same as in Booth's time. Ac- situation. Such a step would be tually, in 1929 the number was all the more regrettable at about one-quarter of a million. moment when an invitation to Those "under the poverty line" the Soviet to be represented on fare persons subject to conditions the proposed Conciliation Com-of privation which, if long con- mittee in the Sino-Japan dis-tinued, would deny them all but pute is contemplated. There is, the barest necessities. It is in- moreover, a further point of de-deed rightly recorded as cided importance, namely, the "gelm" fact that there shouted effect which recognition of still have been one-tenth of the| Manchukuo would have on the population living under these relations between Russia and conditions. But the reduction | China. These two-nations have of the number is striking only just resumed diplomatic evidence of improvement. It is contact, and in view of China's also a fact well worth noting well-known attitude towards the that the amount of deprivation creation of Manchukuo, Nanking due to "sweating"-which ne- obviously would be deeply of-counted for most of the poverty fended were Russia to fall inja generation ago—was in 1929 with the Japanese plan for re-almost negligible; wherever it cognition of the new State. The occurs to-day it is generally doc. whole situation between not to offending employers, but Russia, China and Japan is at to lack of employment. Even the moment very delicately this hardship is modified, as 7t poised, for which reason any was not then, by old-age and change in the relations of any of other pensions, and by unem- the three nations one towards ployment insurance. The' pover- another needs to be very care-ty which the now surveyors fully watched. At any rate, discover in East London is 'due Russian recognition of Manchu-to inability to find jobs; and it kuo would almost inevitably lend is established by this inquiry to developments of the utmost that most of the unemployed wwwww seriousness.

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“Well, don't juat stand there and staro! Where can we

hide him from Jimmy until Sunday?"

The Duchess of Kowloon has

Her funds ran from Shamchun. out unexpectedly. Three times the 2 turned up in succession when she was banking on 4'e.

..

The Duke of Kowloon has also returned, from Macao, having re- ceived an urgent message from the. Duchess,

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Sir Circumference de Tong, who has not been well of late, has gone to take the waters and a fow snapshots at Fanling. Who cares?

WE'RE SUSPICIOUS. "Dear Edward Kelly," writes a correspondent, "I know you have opinions on

(this moet things strikes us as suspicious, the thin edge of the wedge, left-handor, so to speak) "Would you not agree with me that our wild flora here la remarkable In its variety, What are our most attractive wild flowers. I am sure that your views on this subject would in- terest your readers."

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A challenge, huh? Well we do regard ourselves as an expert, but we don't think our opinions have any greater value than those of any other experts. But here goes.

Our Loveliest Wild Flowers, Wild Roso.

Wilder

Omuce).

Rone

(Inaanivimine

Purple Goatsbeard.

Pansy San. (Incubus · Super-

da).

ly

Hyneinth (though she's usual.

more mad than wild) Epipactis..

As regards this fast, we believe sho had a commoner name. but

we haven't seen hor for three months and we do not trust our momory.